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Easter Eggs from modmyi.com blog entry

Join DMC’s new design contest. Create your original design for an Easre Egg using any combination of our embroidery floss, pearl cotton, Color Variations threads, Tapestry Wool, Light Effects, Satin Floss, Color Infusions Memory Thread, crochet threads, or our line of Machine Embroidery Threads.

Your design can be in cross stitch, embroidery, blackwork, quilting and appliqué, knitting or crochet, tatting or needlepoint. Embellishments such as beads, buttons and charms can be used as well.

Three winners will be picked. The Grand Prize will get a full set of DMC floss and the runners-up will get DMC specialty thread packs.

The deadline is March 31, 2011 via email.

Get the details of the contest in the linked post.

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Easter Egg Design Contest

Gold Thread Winner

The winner of the gold threads is Susan Spiers of Mississippi.

She was chosen by using the random number generator at Random.org.

I was completely overwhelmed by the response and all your ideas for using the threads.

Thanks to everyone for participating.

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Gold Thread Winner

And the winners are . . .

Thanks to everyone who commented on the post for the blog’s anniversary. The winners have been selected througjh the random number generator at Random.org.

If you are a winner, you should be getting an email from me. If you don’t, please email me at napaneedlepoint @ gmail.com (remember to remove the spaces) to give me your mailing address (working on a borrowed computer means emailing folks is hard).

DMC Satin Floss pack (courtesy DMC) – Debbie Thomas
Portable bead box (courtesy Fire Mountain Gems) – Carol
2 Stitcher’s Memory Cards (courtesy Sandy Grossman-Morris) – Nancy Lusk
Annie’s Keepers Sample Pack – Laurie Waldman
Handy Hands Tatting Needle #3-0 – Barb Lauzon
Handy Hands Tatting Needle #7 Fine -Bonnie Keating
Loopy 01 (pale yellow) thread from Stitch in Time – Gayle Brewer
Debbie Mumm Noah’s Ark Pin – Kelly Meyer
Needlepoint Trade Secrets – Whitney
Needlepoint Trade Secrets – Laura

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And the winners are . . .

More Reviews in October

I still have a huge backlog of new products to review — books, threads, projects, and more — and then there are plenty of new products as well just out or just announced.

That means this month will be dedicated to reviews as well.

Tomorrow (Oct 2) I will be announcing the winners of my anniversary giveaway. You can still get involved by adding a comment to my anniversary post. Entries open until 5 PM Pacific today.

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More Reviews in October

Needlepoint Meme

A meme is usually a group of questions that get passed around the Web or Facebook and get answered by various people. My DD often posts book meme on her blog and my DS does movies meme from time to time. I thought we needed a needlepoint meme.

Never having seen one, I devised my own. The questions are in bold with my answers after. You can pass them along to others, answer them (or even just one of them) in the comments, or post it to your blog.

Have fun, you may even win a prize!

1) What is the most unusual place where you have needlepointed? I actually stitched once while walking down the street, a feat of coordination I wouldn’t dare do now. Although I do stitch in the car while waiting for the drawbridge to go down.

2) Stretcher or scroll bars? I use stretcher bars. I don’t much like the way you have to fiddle with scroll bars to keep the canvas tight.

3) Favorite needlepoint technique? Bargello, no duh.

4) Favorite thread? Watercolours. I used to (and still do sometimes) buy it the way some people buy lipstick. I often think of colors in terms of Watercolours and I stockpile favorite colors.

5) Favorite stitch? T Stitch, I use it on almost every canvas I do and actually have to force myself not to use it.

6) Favorite designer? I don’t know. I have more of vintage In Good Company mini socks than anything else, but I buy the design not the designer. Probably though I love Maggie Co. geometrics best. I’ve finished two and have two big ones in progress. I love the way I can use up threads with them and that they have so many colors.

7) Who has more of your needlepoint than anyone else? It used to be my Mom and I have more of her paintings than anyone else, but now it’s probably my DD (of the memes). I have made her a needlepoint ornament every year since she was born, use things for her as models for articles and make her things. But everyone in my immediate family gets needlepoint.

How many projects are you working on currently? Actively I have four projects I’m stitching on today and another three I’m working on more sporadically. And about another ten in various stages of completion sitting around close at hand.

9) Where’s your favorite place to stitch? Currently it’s on the couch. That way the cats can be behind me and on either side. The recliner isn’t as good for that.

10) Have you achieved SABLE (stash accumulation beyond life expectancy) yet? Enough for a couple of lifetimes I think, especially if you count the projects in books.

11) Do you belong to a needlework guild? Yes, two ANG chapters (Wine Country and CyberPointers) and one EGA chapter (Cyberstitchers).

12)Do you do something else while you stitch? I usually watch TV, sometimes listen to music and sometimes ride in the car. At one time I could read while I did needlepoint, I don’t know how I did that.

13) Do you stitch alone or with other stitchers? Mostly alone, but I like to stitch in company and wish I did it more.

14) What is your favorite needlepoint project? I love a Mika Partridge project of pomegranates I did years ago and which is in my living room. It’s huge, all Tent Stitch and cost a small fortune all told. But I love it.

15) Do you have a dream needlepoint project? Right now I’m dreaming about doing one of Susan Chaleff’s log cabin pieces, either Heart of the Cabin or her earlier one. I’m getting the earlier one for my birthday next month.

Have fun, I’m looking forward to seeing your answers

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Needlepoint Meme

What’s your Burning Needlepoint Question?

in Books,Nuts About Needlepoint

When I started doing needlepoint it was many years before I took a class. I learned from messing around and from reading books. Occasionally I would ask a question of a shopowner and most of the time got help. (We’ll just pass over the person who told me perle cotton was too fragile to use for needlepoint).

But it does occur to me that this isn’t the best way to learn needlepoint. That motivation compelled me to write my popular email beginning needlepoint course, Right from the Beginning, and is once again compelling my new project a book version of the original class.

The book will be available in printed and reader forms and will have lots more, including a reference section, a stitch library, projects, and a question and answer section.

I’d like that section to be guided by your questions and to have it include your best needlepoint tips. Add either one, or both, into the comments section. Those I use will get a free copy of the book upon publication.

Thanks heaps!

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What’s your Burning Needlepoint Question?

Scrapbook DVD winner

The winner of the Kreinik scrapbooking DVD is Debbie Thomas of Vacaville, CA.

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Scrapbook DVD winner

Needlepoint Challenge – Use your Stash

My friend Kristin runs the blog Craft Leftovers and has a great idea for April — make it a stash-busting month. Vow not to buy any new craft materials in April and then challenge yourself to use them in a new project. You can get all the details, a button for your blog, and information about the contest she is running on this post.

I’d like to put a needlepoint spin on it and encourage you all to make something from your stash. Your project needs to come completely from your stash, canvas, threads, everything. It can be an original project, a UFO, a canvas from your stash, or even a project that is in your stash.

If you like, you can challenge yourself further by trying to pick colors that are different than what you would normally use. Maybe pick an overdye that isn’t one you’d normally use and see how it will work with the other threads in your stash.

Throughout the month, on Tuesdays, I’m going to feature a Scrap Bag Needlepoint design from my archives to encourage you to use what you have. Yesterday’s Roman Stripe Ornament was the first of these. I’ve started my version of it, all in Scotch Stitch.

When you have one of your stash-busting projects done, send me a scan or a picture and next month sometime, I’ll create a gallery of them with some special prizes for entries and winners.

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Needlepoint Challenge – Use your Stash

Needlearts Survey – Help our Art

TNNA has just released the new Needlearts Survey and you can take it on-line (click on the link). This survey is done every three years and the results help companies in our industry know what you are like, the needlearts you do, where you spend your money and what you want to see.

It only takes a few minutes and there is a sweepstakes with five $100 gift certificates as part of the survey.

Take it and let your stitching friend know about it.